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| Theme | Can one be happy without being free? |
| Animation | UPP ALDERAN |
| Date and times | Tuesday, June 17, 2025 from 8:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. |
| Keywords | café, constraint, contentment, debate, emotion, ethics, feeling, felt, freedom, happy, hurt, integrity, justice, law, limits, living-alone, living-together, make, mind, minimalism, pleasure, respect, satisfaction, security, society, want |
| Information | For more details on how the event works, see the page on the WEB philo café. I am a member of the UPP ALDERAN association in Toulouse. |
Introduction▲
This WEB philo café is an “online” philo café, “on the web” where participants meet in a Zoom meeting to debate on a topic known in advance. It is the second online philo café hosted by the UPP ALDERAN association because other philo cafés exist “in person”, such as the Victor Schoelcher philo café in Toulouse.
The topic of today’s debate is life and death. The wording of the evening’s question is as follows:
Can one be happy without being free?
WEB philo café, UPP ALDERAN, Tuesday June 17, 2025.
To answer this vital subject, the participants provided elements of answer during the debate that I will try to transcribe as best I can in this article.
Note: This article mentions elements of reflection from the debate with varying degrees of precision and does not transcribe the entire debate point by point. It is therefore not intended to be exhaustive in terms of its content but invites further reflection on the subject.